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Victor Ocampo
Filipino bishop (1952–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor de la Cruz Ocampo (March 16, 1952 – March 16, 2023) was a Filipino bishop of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Gumaca from September 3, 2015 until his death on March 16, 2023.
Bishop Victor Ocampo | |
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Bishop of Gumaca | |
Province | Lipa |
See | Gumaca |
Appointed | June 12, 2015 |
Installed | September 3, 2015 |
Term ended | March 16, 2023 |
Predecessor | Buenaventura Famadico |
Successor | Vacant |
Orders | |
Ordination | November 5, 1977 |
Consecration | August 29, 2015 by Luis Antonio Tagle |
Personal details | |
Born | (1952-03-16)March 16, 1952 |
Died | March 16, 2023(2023-03-16) (aged 71) Gumaca, Quezon, Philippines |
Nationality | Filipino |
Previous post(s) | Diocesan Administrator of Balanga (2009–2010) |
Motto | CORPUS MEUM ("This is my body”) |
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Styles of Victor Ocampo | |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
During his 48-year stint as priest of the Diocese of Balanga, he served as the diocesan administrator of Balanga during the diocese's sede vacante without an appointed bishop when Socrates Villegas became Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan on November 4, 2009 until Ruperto Santos became fourth Bishop of Balanga on April 1, 2010 as bishop-elect (with Santos had been rector of Pontificio Collegio Filippino and priest of the Archdiocese of Manila when he was appointed as fourth bishop on April 2010), and during Santos' bishop-elect period while awaiting for his installation as bishop from April 2010 until he was installed or assumed office on July 8, 2010, both spanned for 4 months, which totaled the vacancy or period without a bishop in office for 8 months or 246 days.
Ocampo was the first to be ordained as priest in the Diocese of Balanga on 1977 two years after it founded in 1975, as well as the first from the said diocese to serve as bishop outside Bataan, the diocese's jurisdiction, and the ecclesiastical province of San Fernando, Pampanga where the diocese is part of (Diocese of Gumaca being a suffragan or part of the ecclesiastical province of Lipa, Batangas).